2 Corinthians 3:5

3:5 Not that we are adequate ¹  in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy ²  is from God,

2 Corinthians 6:4

6:4 But as God’s servants, ³  we have commended ourselves in every way, ⁴  with great endurance, in persecutions, ⁵  in difficulties, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 7:6

7:6 But God, who encourages ⁶  the downhearted, encouraged ⁷  us by the arrival of Titus.

2 Corinthians 11:17

11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ⁸  I do not say the way the Lord would. ⁹  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

¹ tn Or “competent.”

² tn Or “competence.”

³ tn Or “ministers.”

⁴ tn Or “we have commended ourselves by all things.”

⁵ tn Or “in trouble and suffering.”

⁵ tn Or “comforts,” “consoles.”

⁶ tn Or “comforted,” “consoled.”

⁷ tn Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchsew") has been translated as an attributed genitive (the noun in the genitive gives an attribute of the noun modified).

⁸ tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”